Worst ideas/features in programming languages?

[Timon Gehr]

On 29.12.21 06:09, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 11/9/2021 11:09 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 10/16/21 1:12 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 10/12/2021 2:38 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>>>> - non-lexical variable lifetimes (probably not happening)
>>>
>>> It's already implemented for @live.
>>
>>
>> Specifically, I would like it to influence scoping.
>>
>> ```d
>> int x=2;
>> int y=move(x);
>> int z=x; // error: undefined identifier x (was moved away)
> 
> @live currently does that for pointers, but not for non-pointers.

It removes the variable from the scope? (And anyway, @live is a function 
annotation, which makes little sense.)

> What's the use case for it?
> ...

This is just how moving things works. If you move it, it's no longer 
where it was. If the variable disappears, we don't have to bother with 
putting `x` into some safe default state. Some types can't even 
naturally support a safe default state. The simplest example is indeed a 
`struct` implementing a unique non-null pointer managing its own memory. 
(By whatever means you want, it does not even have to have any pointer 
members to implement such semantics.)

> 
>> int y=move(y); // ok
>> ```
> 
> I see what you mean, but since D disallows:
> 
>      int x; { int x; }
> 
> which prevents a number of bugs, so I can't see allowing that.

I don't see how that's related. It's two variables `y` whose lifetimes 
do not overlap. It's more like this:

{int x; } { int x; }

Which D allows.